1646 in literature

1646 in literature

The year 1646 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

* John Lilburne is placed in the Tower of London for denouncing his former commander the Earl of Manchester as a traitor.
* Jacqueline Pascal is converted to Jansenism by her brother, Blaise Pascal.
*The London theatres officially remain closed through the middle 1640s. Yet on March 24, the King's Men petition Parliament for three and a half years' back pay. Unfortunately, no details about their activities in these years survive.
*Martin Llewellyn's drama "The King Found at Southwell" is performed at Oxford on May 5; it is the last stage piece presented in the city before its surrender to Parliamentary forces in the English Civil War, June 22-4.

New books

*Anonymous (John Lilburne?) - "London's Liberty in Chains Discovered"
*Anonymous (John Lilburne?) - "Vox Plebis, or the People's Outcry"
*Sir Thomas Browne "Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors"
*Thomas Fuller - "Andronicus or the Unfortunate Politician"
*Sir John Suckling - "An Account of Religion by Reason" published

Published plays

*James Shirley - "The Triumph of Beauty" (masque)
*Sir John Suckling - "Fragmenta Aurea", collected plays, including "The Sad One" (unfinished)

Poetry

* Richard Crashaw - "Steps to the Temple"
* Martin Lluelyn - "Men-Miracles"
* John Milton - "Poems"
* Francis Quarles - "The Shepherds' Oracle"
* James Shirley - "Poems"
* Henry Vaughan - "Poems, with the Tenth Satire of Juvenal Englished"

Births

* July 1 - Gottfried Leibniz, philosopher (died 1716)

Deaths

* August 19 - Alexander Henderson (theologian) (died c.1583)
* December 23 - François Maynard, poet (died c.1582)


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